John Snow
John Augustine Snow
Born: 13 October 1941, Peopleton, Worcestershire
Major Teams: Sussex, Warwickshire, England.
Known As: John Snow
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Test Debut: England v New Zealand at Lord's, 2nd Test, 1965
Last Test: England v West Indies at Leeds, 4th Test, 1976
ODI Debut: England v Australia at Melbourne, One-off ODI, 1970/71
Last ODI: England v Australia at Leeds, World Cup, 1975
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1973
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 49 71 14 772 73 13.54 0 2 16 0
Balls M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 12021 415 5387 202 26.66 7-40 8 1 59.5 2.68
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 9 4 2 9 5* 4.50 21.95 0 0 1 0
Balls M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 538 11 232 14 16.57 4-11 2 0 38.4 2.58
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1961 - 1977)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 346 451 110 4832 73* 14.17 0 11 125 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 60958 26675 1174 22.72 8-87 56 9 51.9 2.62
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(career: 1963 - 1980)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 182 133 39 1209 57 12.86 0 2 34 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 8882 4855 251 19.34 5-15 8 2 35.3 3.27
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
John Snow was not your average fast bowler. Fiery on the field and often at
odds with authority, off the field he was more tranquil and not just a
reader of poetry, but a writer of it. In the early 1970s he published two
volumes called Contrasts, and Moments and Thoughts. So, something of a
rarity among pacemen. By his own admission, he could be an awkward customer
for the game's administrators and the captains he played under - his
autobiography was called Cricket Rebel.
Snow was a one-club man, making his debut for Sussex in 1961 and playing
267 matches for the county before retiring in 1977. He took 100 wickets in a
season twice, his most successful year being 1966 when he took 126 wickets
at an average of fractionally over 19. His career-best figures of 8/87 came
in bizarre circumstances in 1975 against Middlesex at Lord's. Frustrated by
a game that was apparently heading for a dull draw, Snow delivered a slow,
high full-toss which landed on the stumps. Snow said: "The game was going
nowhere so I mucked about, alternating bouncers with loopy things that came
from over the top of the sightscreen out of those lovely, silvery, feathery
trees that used to wave about behind the arm. The best figures of my life,
and I got them with long-hops and donkey-drops."
Snow first played for England in 1965 in the Second Test against New
Zealand at Lord's and made a promising start, picking up four wickets in an
England victory. He went on to become a more or less permanent fixture in
the national side for the next 11 years. He performed consistently with his
100th Test wicket coming in his 26th match and his 200th being taken in his
49th - and final - Test match. His most successful series were those in the
West Indies in 1967/68 when he took 27 wickets in four matches and in
Australia in 1970/71, when Illingworth's side brought back the Ashes, and
Snow finished with 31 wickets in five games.
The international one-day game was largely in its infancy during Snow's
career and he played only nine ODIs for England. He bowed out in the 1975
World Cup semi-final defeat against Australia at Headingley, when he
finished with a respectable 2/30 off his 12 overs. He then signed for Kerry
Packer's World Series Cricket but his first-class career was, by then,
virtually at an end anyway. (Copyright CricInfo 2001)
Last Updated: Tuesday, 30-Jul-2002 00:47:11 GMT
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